What questions would you ask to elicit further strengths?

What will be an ideal response?


For Billy’s mother:
1. When are she and her husband able to follow through with consequences to Billy? What do they do? How does he respond? How do they support each other?
2. What is different about times when Billy had a dry bed at night?
3. He is able to control his defecation most of the time. What is he doing to achieve this?

For Billy and his teacher:
When is Billy able to complete his assignments? What is different about those times? What time of day is it? Who is he sitting near? What is he doing and saying to make this happen?

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